Hail Ramanujan!

I was talking to a childhood batchmate of mine on YM, and the talks somehow lead to a discussion on "Srinivasa Ramanujan". Just out of curiosity, i researched a little bit on him and the following are a few excerpts from a gem of a life as his....

"...........he had independently discovered the Bernoulli numbers. At this time in his life, he was quite poor and was often near the point of starvation"

Hardy said of Ramanujan's formulae, some of which he could not initially understand, "a single look at them is enough to show that they could only be written down by a mathematician of the highest class. They must be true, for if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them."

...the list of the anecdotes is too long and i cant quote them all here. The taxi number saga is a legend. If interested, You can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan